All 5 Uses of
grievance
in
Of Human Bondage
- One of the grievances of the women-students was that Fanny Price would never share their gay meals in restaurants, and the reason was obvious: she had been oppressed by dire poverty.†
Chpt 49-50grievances = complaints
- Though she never mentioned the change, for she did not take any conscious notice of it, it affected her nevertheless: she became more confidential with him; she took her little grievances to him, and she always had some grievance against the manageress of the shop, one of her fellow waitresses, or her aunt; she was talkative enough now, and though she never said anything that was not trivial Philip was never tired of listening to her.†
Chpt 63-64
- Though she never mentioned the change, for she did not take any conscious notice of it, it affected her nevertheless: she became more confidential with him; she took her little grievances to him, and she always had some grievance against the manageress of the shop, one of her fellow waitresses, or her aunt; she was talkative enough now, and though she never said anything that was not trivial Philip was never tired of listening to her.†
Chpt 63-64grievance = complaint
- Philip gathered that Lawson's chief grievance was that the rupture had come in the middle of a portrait he was painting.†
Chpt 65-66 *
- Philip had already heard of the social evenings, for the money stopped from the wages to pay for them was one of the grievances of the staff.†
Chpt 103-104grievances = complaints
Definitions:
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(1)
(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, in classic literature, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.